Despite the significant investment of multinational companies (MNCs) in
Central and Eastern Europe, we have limited information about the
diffusion of employment practices in this region. This paper aims to
fill this gap by conceptualizing and exploring coordination, employment
flexibility and industrial relations in a Polish factory of a Western
European industrial company. We argue that the MNCs’ corporate intention
to utilize local conditions and an underdeveloped international
coordination of trade unions within MNCs are the main factors explaining
the local embeddedness of factory-level employment practices and
industrial relations.